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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Not everyone here likes Herm. For good reason. But I know even the biggest Herm haters mostly recognize that the team Herm inherited... there was no choice but to wrecking ball that shit. Not fix it. Blow it up to smithereens and start over.
Herm didn't inherit a mediocre to average team as much as you want to say it. He inherited a team of grossly overpaid, expensive but uncuttable geriatrics. A better coach could have gotten more out of them than Herm did in year 1 (though getting to the playoffs behind Damon Huard is much better than some coaches would do). But after that year or 2, not even Bill Bellichick could have saved this team quickly. You act as if he inherited a workable team then crushed it. He inherited a team that was 1 snowball away from an avalanche.
And the Chiefs didn't just "pay for old guys" during the Vermeil era. They stockpiled on old veterans. Gave old veterans like Wesley and Woods enormous long-term deals that handcuffed them WAY beyond their prime. And to afford their drunk spending binge, they restructured the living hell out of contracts like Trent Green and Priest Holmes to the point where they were exploding back-end timebombs. It was a perfect storm that came from a GM intent on milking that team dry for 2 last playoff runs in 2004 and 2005. This was not just some ordinary cap purge. This was the Titanic. Not only were they $25M over the cap (remember... this was 10 years ago -- that is enormous), they were badly handcuffed to unworkable contracts.
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You are still totally missing the point. You can deflect blame to Vermiel all you want but the bottom line is the dudes Herm brought in were trash. Sure he couldn't go bring in Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison for the offense and Ed Reed and Ray Lewis for the defense but that does not excuse the trash he brought in.
For ****s sake, Dorsey brought in six guys off the waiver wire that got meaningful snaps on a playoff team. Just because you aren't in the market for marquee free agents does not excuse bringing in absolute ****ing trash players that no GM of any team wants.